We’ve found that we have to be careful with what our kids watch. Whether it’s because they repeat everything they hear, without knowing what they’re saying (isn’t that true of all kids though) to not understanding what they are seeing, and thinking everything they see is OK. Therefore we screen everything our kids watch, and explain what we need to. These are some of the things they’ve seen and we’ve worked through with them.
Having three boys means we see a lot of two types of movies: superhero and animated. Because they do not necessarily understand complex characters, we’ve shied away from anti-heroes and those with ambiguous motives (Deadpool, Suicide Squad, Punisher, etc). However, those with a little more clear cut, or the issues being over their head we’ve…
Our family likes to watch movies, as is evidence by our movie review section. We have a natural bias towards superhero movies, and classic TV shows and movies that my wife and I grew up watching, such as Gilligan’s Island, and more. Well, Christmas time is no different, and there are a great number of…
One of our newer movies to try with the kids was the Herbie series. My wife found a collection a while back for a great price, and decided to buy it. Then it sat on our shelf for a while. Well we decided to finally watch it as one of our family movies recently. All…